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A Wogball Christmas: Soccerphobia’s hold on the Australian psyche
I caught up with a friend of mine recently at a coffee shop on Bourke Street. We talked about the previous year, the ailing fortunes of our respective ...
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Football
The Old Man, the Rooster and a morsel of pork: Melbourne Heart as Balkan parable
My cousin is a great storyteller. I don’t mean good at making up stories, he’s just a good raconteur. In a very ‘old world’ quality, he describes every ...
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Football
Tomi Juric or Josh Kennedy: Will the Colossus of Western Sydney go to the World Cup?
Tomi Juric or Josh Kennedy? This could very well be the scenario confronting Socceroos manager Ange Postecoglou. Does he choose the veteran hero Josh Kennedy, our Saviour who ...
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Football 1
An A-League Xmas: From Bad Football in Sydney to Bad Santa at the Melbourne Derby
“You have a tactic, you concede a goal, tactic – pfff!” Helenio Herrera Bleary eyed, I absorbed the wisdom from the godfather of catennacio. I was re-reading Simon ...
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Football 1
Death to Pissants: Is Adelaide finally on the path to being United?
“Because of a piss-ant town this club will never win anything, until you get rid of that crap.” The now infamous words spoken by then-Adelaide United manager Aurelio ...
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Football
Anger Management: Can Muscat Tame the Beast Within?
Melbourne Victory enjoyed the dizzy, Disney-friendly days of Ange Postecoglou, gilded by the sparkling form of Marco Rojas, last year’s Johnny Warren medallist. But now with Kevin Muscat ...
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Football
A Scarred Socceroos Fan Reflects on the World Cup
When I am not watching football, I like to watch films. You can blame this on SBS TV’s effect on a young curious teenager. When SBS launched in ...
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Football
A-League Fans in Rebellion: An Existential Guide to Football Protests
It’s not quite May 1968, but an air of protest has swept through the supporter groups belonging to the navy blue three quarters and the red and white ...
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Football 1
What Holger Did Next
The former coach of the Australian men’s national football team, Holger Osieck, sits alone in the shabby study of his holiday chalet in the small Tyrolean town of ...
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Football 2
Melbourne Heart to Crowdfund John Aloisi Sacking
In a move without precedent in professional team sport, A-League football club, Melbourne Heart will be launching a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for the removal of their ...
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Football
The Day Francesco Totti came to Melbourne Heart
In early October 2012 I received an email from Pasquale, an old acquaintance of mine. He had just opened a pizzeria on the other side of town and ...
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Football 2
It’s a Melbourne Heartache: A Song for Losing
The weather closed in during the second half. There was a football match to watch, between Melbourne Heart and Western Sydney Wanderers, but I had the awful feeling ...
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Football 1
#FarinaOut: Social Media and the Football Manager
I could not help but smile when Frank Farina jumped on his keyboard and became a warrior last night. Fed up with the abuse he is receiving on ...
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Football
Uli Island Discs: Uli Hesse on Bundesliga, Baseball and Oz Underground Rock
Shoot Farken Q&A: German football writer Uli Hesse. I was writing a story about the transformation of German football and what Australia could learn from it when I ...
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Football
The Life and Passion of St Ange
Look yonder oh believer and ye shall be struck by the might of the holy fist pump of St Ange. For his story is the story of us ...
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Football
Interior Monologue: When Frank Lowy Appointed Ange Postecoglou as Socceroos Coach
A stream-of-consciousness mind dump from FFA chairman and shopping mall impresario Frank Lowy’s neurons in the moments leading up to, during, and just after he decided to appoint ...
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Football
Logan’s Run: How a 70s Sci-Fi Movie Solved the Socceroos Ageing Crisis
In case you didn’t realise, the life of a gilded Socceroo is eerily similar to the trailer of “Logan’s Run”. “Just imagine being a Socceroo, where you will ...
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Football
Green and Gold or Dead: Holger Osieck’s Socceroos Obituary
An ode to Holger Osieck inspired by the novel Red or Dead by David Peace. Athas Zafiris writes. Holger looked at his diary. Holger looked at the Socceroos ...
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Football
Kewell at 35: Man and Myth Collide in Mandurah
While Harry Kewell’s time with the Melbourne Victory boiled down to little more than exhausting pre-signing antics and infrequent bouts of brilliance, his last hurrah with the Melbourne ...
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